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Books by Roger Kimball
  | | The Rape of the Masters(1st Edition) How Political Correctness Sabotages Art by Roger Kimball, Gabriel Garciá Márquez Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2004 by Encounter Books ISBN-13: 978-1-893554-86-3, ISBN: 1-893554-86-4 "Colleges and universities used to teach art history to encourage connoisseurship and acquaint students with the riches of our artistic heritage. But now, as Roger Kimball reveals in this witty and provocative book, the student is less likely to learn about the aesthetics of masterworks than to be told, for instance, that Peter Paul Rubens' great painting Drunken Silenus is an allegory about anal rape. Or that Courbet's famous hunting pi ..." |
 | | Experiments Against Reality The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age by Roger Kimball Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2002 by Ivan R. Dee ISBN-13: 978-1-56663-430-4, ISBN: 1-56663-430-X "Confronting the dilemmas of modernist and postmodernist thought, Roger Kimball in this new collection of his work explores the literary and philosophical underpinnings of modernity as well as the state of our culture today. Experiments Against Reality displays the sophistication, breadth of knowledge, and clarity of argument that have made Mr. Kimball one of the most trenchant critics of our contemporary culture. He begins by considerin ..." |
 | | The Long March(1st Edition) How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America by Roger Kimball Paperback, 326 Pages, Published 2001 by Encounter Books ISBN-13: 978-1-893554-30-6, ISBN: 1-893554-30-9 "The 1960s, writes Roger Kimball, "has become less the name of a decade than a provocation." This incisive critique of that turbulent time won't calm the debate. The Long March will enthrall conservatives who think of themselves as culture warriors and infuriate liberals who still celebrate "the purple decade." Kimball, managing editor of the New Criterion and author of Tenured Radicals, is one of the Right's most articulate writers. He ..." |
 | | Tenured Radicals(3rd Edition) How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education by Roger Kimball Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2008 by Ivan R. Dee ISBN-13: 978-1-56663-796-1, ISBN: 1-56663-796-1 "Since Tenured Radicals first appeared in 1990, it has achieved a stature as the leading critique of the ways in which the humanities are now taught and studied at American universities. Trenchant and witty, it lays bare the sham of what now passes for serious academic pursuit in too many circles. In this new edition, completely reset, Roger Kimball has brought the text up to date and has added a new Introduction. Those who have never re ..." |
 | | Lives of the Mind(Reprint) The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse by Roger Kimball Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2003 by Ivan R. Dee ISBN-13: 978-1-56663-524-0, ISBN: 1-56663-524-1 "“In the faculty of writing nonsense,” the English critic Walter Bagehot once observed, “stupidity is no match for genius.” In Lives of the Mind, Roger Kimball, one of the best of our cultural critics, offers a lively and penetrating study of genius―and pseudo-genius―at work and investigates the use and abuse of intelligence. When does a love of ideas become a dangerous infatuation? What antidotes are there for the silliness of unanchore ..." |
 | | Lengthened Shadows(1st Edition) America and Its Institutions in the Twenty-First Century by Roger Kimball, Hilton Kramer Paperback, 255 Pages, Published 2004 by Encounter Books ISBN-13: 978-1-59403-054-3, ISBN: 1-59403-054-5 "In a series of penetrating reflections on the United States and its institutions in the post-9/11 world, this book offers some answers to questions that people at home and abroad have begun to ask about our country. How did it attain its international preeminence? What exactly is this richest, most powerful of countries made of? Where will its unmatched influence lead? Military historian Frederick Kagan discusses the future of o ..." |
 | | The Fortunes of Permanence(1st Edition) Culture and Anarchy in an Age of Amnesia by Roger Kimball Hardcover, 360 Pages, Published 2012 by St. Augustines Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58731-256-4, ISBN: 1-58731-256-5 "“Cultural instructions.” Everyone who has handled a package of seedlings has encountered that enigmatic advisory. This much water and that much sun, certain tips about fertilizer, soil, and drainage. Planting one sort of flower nearby keeps the bugs away but proximity to another sort makes bad things happen. Young shoots might need stakes, and watch out for beetles, weeds, and unseasonable frosts. It’s a complicated business.But at leas ..." |
 | | The Rape of the Masters(Updated) How Political Correctness Sabotages Art by Roger Kimball Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2005 by Encounter Books ISBN-13: 978-1-59403-121-2, ISBN: 1-59403-121-5 "Colleges and universities used to teach art history to encourage connoisseurship and acquaint students with the riches of our artistic heritage. But now, as Roger Kimball reveals in this witty and provocative book, the student is less likely to learn about the aesthetics of masterworks than to be told, for instance, that Peter Paul Rubens' great painting Drunken Silenus is an allegory about anal rape. Or that Courbet's famous hunting pi ..." |
 | | The Long March(1st Edition) How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America by Roger Kimball, National Book Network Hardcover, 326 Pages, Published 2000 by Encounter Books ISBN-13: 978-1-893554-09-2, ISBN: 1-893554-09-0 "The 1960s, writes Roger Kimball, "has become less the name of a decade than a provocation." This incisive critique of that turbulent time won't calm the debate. The Long March will enthrall conservatives who think of themselves as culture warriors and infuriate liberals who still celebrate "the purple decade." Kimball, managing editor of the New Criterion and author of Tenured Radicals, is one of the Right's most articulate writers. He ..." |
 | | Tenured Radicals(1st Edition) How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education by Roger Kimball Paperback, 222 Pages, Published 1991 by Harpercollins ISBN-13: 978-0-06-092049-4, ISBN: 0-06-092049-1 "So consummately does October epitomize these qualities, and so successful has it been in combining fashionable academic jargon with radical ... 2 There were also some notes on filmmaking by Hollis Frampton ("The mode we call reading entails a correct extrapolation of the axiomatic ... Douglas Crimp, and Joan Copjec, eds., October: The First Decade, 1976-1986 (Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1987)." |
 | | Athwart History Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus by Linda Bridges, Roger Kimball, William F. Buckley, George F. Will Paperback, 552 Pages, Published 2012 by Encounter Books ISBN-13: 978-1-59403-608-8, ISBN: 1-59403-608-X "For most of the last century, William F. Buckley Jr. was the leading figure in the conservative movement in America. The magazine he founded in 1955, National Review, brought together writers representing every strand of conservative thought, and refined those ideas over the decades that followed. Buckley’s own writings were a significant part of this development. He was not a theoretician but a popularizer, someone who could bring cons ..." |
 | | Athwart History(1st Edition) Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus by Roger Kimball, Linda Bridges, William Frank Buckley Hardcover, 550 Pages, Published 2010 by Encounter Books ISBN-13: 978-1-59403-379-7, ISBN: 1-59403-379-X "For most of the last century, William F. Buckley Jr. was the leading figure in the conservative movement in America. The magazine he founded in 1955, National Review, brought together writers representing every strand of conservative thought, and refined those ideas over the decades that followed. Buckley’s own writings were a significant part of this development. He was not a theoretician but a popularizer, someone who could bring cons ..." |
 | | The Treason of the Intellectuals(1st Edition) by Julien Benda, Roger Kimball, Richard Aldington Paperback, 202 Pages, Published 2006 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-4128-0623-7, ISBN: 1-4128-0623-2 " Julien Benda's classic study of the European 1920s resonates today. La trahison des clercs is one of those phrases that bristle with hints and associations without stating anything definite. In his new introduction, Roger Kimball quotes from a contemporary, Alain Finkielkraut, who recalls in haunting words the essence of The Treason of the Intellectuals. "When hatred of culture becomes itself a part of culture, the life of the mind los ..." |
 | | Where Next? Western Civilization at the Crossroads by Roger Kimball Hardcover, 200 Pages, Published 2023 by Encounter Books ISBN-13: 978-1-64177-315-7, ISBN: 1-64177-315-4 |
 | | Lives of the Mind(1st Edition) The Use and Abuse of Intelligence from Hegel to Wodehouse by Roger Kimball Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2002 by Ivan R. Dee ISBN-13: 978-1-56663-479-3, ISBN: 1-56663-479-2 "Mr. Kimball, one of the best of our cultural critics, offers a lively and penetrating study of genius―and pseudo-genius―at work, and investigates the use and abuse of intelligence. Drawing on figures as various as Plutarch and Hegel, Kierkegaard and P.G. Wodehouse, Elias Canetti and Anthony Trollope, he provides a sharply observed tour of Western intellectual and artistic aspiration. A master of the genre, as collections of his pieces a ..." |
 | | Experiments Against Reality(1st Edition) The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age by Roger Kimball Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2000 by Ivan R. Dee ISBN-13: 978-1-56663-335-2, ISBN: 1-56663-335-4 "Experiments Against Reality displays the sophistication, breadth of knowledge, and clarity of argument that have made Mr. Kimball one of the most trenchant critics of our contemporary culture. He begins by considering the influential poet and theorist T. E. Hulme, and shows how the work of Eliot, Auden, Wallace Stevens, Robert Musil, Elias Canetti, and others can be seen as efforts to articulate a convincing alternative to the intellect ..." |
 | | Vox Populi The Perils and Promises of Populism by Roger Kimball Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2017 by Encounter Books ISBN-13: 978-1-59403-957-7, ISBN: 1-59403-957-7 "The rise of populist movements across the political spectrum poses a vital question: what role should populism play in modern democracy? In ten trenchant essays, the writers of The New Criterion examine the perils and promises of populism in Vox Populi, a new collection that marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of this critical journal. Beginning with a reflection on the problems of populism for American conservatism (George H. Nash), the ..." |
 | | Future Tense(1st Edition) The Lessons of Culture in an Age of Upheaval by Roger Kimball Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2012 by Encounter Books ISBN-13: 978-1-59403-634-7, ISBN: 1-59403-634-9 "We are living in an age of unprecedented upheaval. The future of Western culture is uncertain. America’s economic and political vitality are more fragile than ever. The preservation of tradition is far from guaranteed.Many have observed that we are living through a world historical moment of which Hegel spoke: a time when many of the traditional assumptions about the shape and future of culture are suddenly in play. As The New Crite ..." |
 | | Art's Prospect(1st Edition) The Challenge of Tradition in an Age of Celebrity by Roger Kimball Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2003 by Ivan R. Dee ISBN-13: 978-1-56663-509-7, ISBN: 1-56663-509-8 "Observing our contemporary culture, the distinguished critic Roger Kimball sees that the avant-garde assault on tradition has long since degenerated into a sclerotic orthodoxy. He finds that the "cutting edge," as defined by the established tastemakers, turns out time and again to be a stale remainder of past impotence. And he locates a pretense that the traditional is the enemy rather than a springboard to originality. In Art's Prospec ..." |
 | | Saving the Republic The Fate of Freedom in the Age of the Administrative State by Roger Kimball Published 2018 by Encounter Books ISBN-13: 978-1-59403-966-9, ISBN: 1-59403-966-6 "The Fate of Freedom in the Age of the Administrative State Roger Kimball. 2011, when OCR decided that accusers in campus cases must be able to appeal even when the accused was found not ... of the evidence standard” (a 50.01 percent certainty of guilt) when determining guilt or innocence in sexual misconduct cases." |
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